HockeyVirus
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Post your team's updated lines with new acquisitions
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It's a putrid lineup to look at but they did make the playoffs last year... Says a lot about the pretenders: Buffalo, New Jersey, Pittsburgh...
HockeyVirus
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That roster looks pretty comparable to the Habs roster IMO. I suspect they finish around each other. Just Isle on the downswing Habs on the up
Eklund - Granlund - Zetterlund
Bordeleau(until Couture returns) - Celebrini - Toffoli
Kostin/Grundstrom - W. Smith - Wennberg
Goodrow/Dellandrea - Sturm - Kunin
Gushchin
Mukhamadullin - Ferraro
Vlasic - Walman
Emberson - Benning/Rutta
Thrun
Blackwood
Vanacek
Bordeleau(until Couture returns) - Celebrini - Toffoli
Kostin/Grundstrom - W. Smith - Wennberg
Goodrow/Dellandrea - Sturm - Kunin
Gushchin
Mukhamadullin - Ferraro
Vlasic - Walman
Emberson - Benning/Rutta
Thrun
Blackwood
Vanacek
Got Sorokin in net who had a bad year last season by his standards, and still got the Isles in.
Barzal and Dobson as the top forward and defenseman respectively isn't bad.
Improved depth versus last season's lineup that Roy had playing at a 100 point pace.
I guarantee that barring a LT injury to Sorokin, Dobson or Barzal that this team is at worst fighting for a WC spot.
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Pavel Buchnevich
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I forgot Vesey is part of the team. Vesey takes 4LW, move Carrick down to 13F, and Edstrom to Hartford.
They have Sorokin and a clear Top 10 blueline. Tons of vets. They will be in the mix unless the old guys fall off suddenly
This is 2009 Oilers level bad
Jonathan Huberdeau - Yegor Sharangovich - Anthony Mantha
Connor Zary - Nazem Kadri - Andrei Kuzmenko
Matthew Coronato - Mikael Backlund - Blake Coleman
Jakob Pelletier - Martin Pospisil - Ryan Lomberg
Kevin Rooney
MacKenzie Weegar - Daniil Miromanov
Kevin Bahl - Rasmus Andersson
Jake Bean - Brayden Pachal
Dustin Wolf
Dan Vladar
Devin Cooley
There are things to remember about last season to take into context.
They amongst the youngest teams with the youngest blueline. They had a year of development in the right direction.
Still had nasty issues with man games lost to injury but better than the 2 previous seasons. Should be better in that department.
They were in 41 1 goal games and 15 2 goal games.Would not take much to flip the won-loss on that
HockeyVirus
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Sorokin is hit or miss and no way is that blue line top 10. Top 18 maybe
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Not the fansiest of lineups, but had a good mixture of middlings guys who can get the team into the playoffs
Dobson is a bonafide #1. Pelech & Pulock are really good. Romanov & Mayfield are nice depth pieces. That’s a very solid blueline. Feel free to name 17 better ones if you want
GhostfaceWu
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Lol go back to the laughs board. Hit or miss lol .909 being your worst season and this guy says hit or miss.
LuckyBoeser
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How is Sorokin hit or miss? Guy posted 3 straight seasons of .918+ sv% before this most recent season.
Yeah, some Leafs fan ragging on Sorokin is the type of unintended humor that keeps me coming back to the site.
If the Leafs had someone 'hit or miss' like Sorokin in net, they'd probably be Cup contenders each year instead of (an almost always) first round exit, like they will be this year.
voyageur
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Jets are hard to predict with a new head coach and d coach...don't think it will be a complete rehash of last season, every coach will see things differently, hough personnel hasn't changed much.
They have a hole at 2C with Monahan gone, but there is some excitement about Brad Lambert's potential. Namestnikov played that role for almost 40 games last year with team success so he might get in there.
There should be a training camp battle between Logan Stanley and Ville Heinola. One contributes to PK and team toughness the other to puck movement and rushes and PP. Dylan Samberg is likely to move up to a bigger role with more minutes. Jets could see some 7 d alignments under Arniel I suspect.
4C could be a competition between Barron, Gustafsson, Kupari.
They have a hole at 2C with Monahan gone, but there is some excitement about Brad Lambert's potential. Namestnikov played that role for almost 40 games last year with team success so he might get in there.
There should be a training camp battle between Logan Stanley and Ville Heinola. One contributes to PK and team toughness the other to puck movement and rushes and PP. Dylan Samberg is likely to move up to a bigger role with more minutes. Jets could see some 7 d alignments under Arniel I suspect.
4C could be a competition between Barron, Gustafsson, Kupari.
Clint Eastwood
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Islanders still need a bonafied top 6 offensive threat to really send them to the next level, but that team will likely be competing for a playoff spot as always unless they're decimated by injuries.
teravaineSAROS
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It's going to be an interesting team to follow and very hard to predict how well the team will perform IMO.
Should Dubois and Ovechkin really play on the same line though?
Dubois seems like the type who needs to be “the guy” to be motivated so if he brings his A game while playing top line with Ovi it should be fine. If he dogs it like in LA though that could get ugly defensively
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Canucks will probably be:
Heinen - Miller - Boeser
Hoglander - Pettersson - Debrusk
Joshua - Blueger - Garland
Sherwood - Suter - Sprong
Ex: Aman, Podkolzin
Hughes - Hronek
Soucy - Myers
Forbort - Desharnais
Ex: Juulsen
Demko
Silovs
Forward group is decent if Joshua-Garland continue to make the 3rd line perform like an 2nd line and Boeser comes back strong. The bottom 4 on D is a problem, though we might see an in-season trade and/or Willander join after the NCAA season.
Heinen - Miller - Boeser
Hoglander - Pettersson - Debrusk
Joshua - Blueger - Garland
Sherwood - Suter - Sprong
Ex: Aman, Podkolzin
Hughes - Hronek
Soucy - Myers
Forbort - Desharnais
Ex: Juulsen
Demko
Silovs
Forward group is decent if Joshua-Garland continue to make the 3rd line perform like an 2nd line and Boeser comes back strong. The bottom 4 on D is a problem, though we might see an in-season trade and/or Willander join after the NCAA season.
teravaineSAROS
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Great goaltending, very good defense (Definitely top 10 IMO) and their centers are good (Nelson's very underrated).
I don't know why so many people are saying their team's not good, like sure they might need a winger or two but that's the easiest weakness to fix.
I feel like people make the mistake of rating teams by how exciting they are offensively.
Defense looks right but offense will look more like this I think. McMike won’t be on the fourth line.
Ovi-Strome-Wilson
Milano-Dubois-Mangiapane
McMichael-Lapierre-Protas
Dubaime-Dowd-Raddyish
hamzarocks
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I Cant see perbix being scratched after 2 years of playing good on bottom pairing minutes
HockeyVirus
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Most of that was Trotz doing Trotz things.
If he is that good and the Islanders are still a wildcard team at best what are they if he isn't superman?
Where do the Islanders finish this season?
Where do you think this (projected) team finishes this year? Duclair - Horvat - Barzal Engvall - Nelson - Palmieri Lee - Pageau - Tsyplakov Holmstrom - Cizikas - Fasching McClean / Iskhakov Romanov - Dobson Pelech - Pulock Reilly - Mayfield Bolduc Sorokin / Varlamov
Seems I am not alone in my opinion
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